Turning On Two-Step Everywhere (Finally)
After a week of iCloud headlines I finally spent a Saturday turning on two-step verification everywhere, and found out Apple's version still doesn't cover what you'd think it does.
Tutorials
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Home Depot's Breach and the Password Spreadsheet I Finally Deleted
Home Depot just confirmed it's investigating a possible card breach, which finally pushed me to delete my embarrassing passwords.xlsx and set up a real password manager.
Getting My OBS Settings Sorted While Everyone Talks About Amazon
Amazon buying Twitch is all anyone's talking about this week, but here are the actual OBS encoding settings that stopped my own stream from looking like a slideshow.
Three Weeks Into the Yosemite Beta
Three weeks into running the OS X Yosemite public beta: what's actually good (Spotlight), what's half-broken (Handoff, iCloud Drive), and why Helvetica Neue is bugging my eyes at night.
Two Weeks Into the iOS 8 Public Beta
Two weeks into running the iOS 8 public beta: how to actually install it without stranding yourself, what QuickType and interactive notifications get right, and what's still breaking daily.
Flashing the Android L Preview Onto My Nexus 5
Notes (and one big mistake) from flashing the freshly-released Android L Developer Preview onto my Nexus 5 the same week Google unveiled Material Design.
A Weekend Lost to Swift Playgrounds
A weekend spent poking at Xcode 6's Swift playgrounds after WWDC, including the parts that clicked and the optional-chaining stuff that made me want to throw my laptop.
First Weekend With Swift Playgrounds
A weekend spent poking at Apple's brand new Swift language and its Playgrounds live-coding view, two days after the WWDC surprise announcement.
The eBay Breach Finally Got Me to Set Up a Password Manager
After finally resetting my eBay password following their big breach, I spent a night setting up 1Password for real and figured I'd write up what I learned.
Finally Setting Up a Password Manager (Thanks, eBay)
The eBay breach finally pushed me to set up a real password manager. Here's what that actually looked like, LastPass vs 1Password included.
The eBay Breach Finally Got Me to Set Up a Password Manager
The eBay breach email finally scared me into setting up LastPass. Heres what that actually looked like, and why Im annoyed it took a corporate screwup to make me do it.
Fine, I Finally Set Up a Password Manager
Eleven days after Heartbleed, I finally sat down and set up a real password manager instead of my old three-password system. Here's what that actually involved.